Bug#383708: exim4-config: SPF-related documentation issues

[Ross Boylan]

Package: exim4-config
Version: 4.62-4
Severity: minor


1. NEWS.Debian is not displaying the item saying that SPF is
available.  I reviewed the logs of the upgrade to 4.62-2 to verify
this ( my latest upgrade was to 4.62-4).
Speculation:
Sometimes this is caused by a syntax error; perhaps the omission of a
"*" before the item is significant.  
More likely, the fact that all (most?) if the exim4 packages share the
same source is confusing things.  exim4-deamon-heavy clearly has a
different NEWS.Debian from exim4-config; I think all packages with the
same source need the sames Debian NEWS and changes files.  One package
maintainer, however, has told me that's not his experience.

I have not reviewed older upgrades to see what, if any NEWS for exim
is getting reported.  In particular, the prior news item also lacks a
"*".

2. Is the change for SPF specific to exim4-config?  If not, maybe the
daemon packages need to mention this as well.

3. NEWS.Debian says the change was in 4.62-2, but the changelog
entries for SPF appear in 4.62-3.

4. The NEWS item has a typo.  "calls to spfquery(1) form the" the
"form" should be "from", I assume.

-- Package-specific info:
Exim version 4.62 #1 built 01-Aug-2006 11:16:05
Copyright (c) University of Cambridge 2006
Berkeley DB: Sleepycat Software: Berkeley DB 4.3.29: (September  6, 2005)
Support for: crypteq iconv() IPv6 PAM Perl GnuTLS move_frozen_messages Content_Scanning Old_Demime
Lookups: lsearch wildlsearch nwildlsearch iplsearch cdb dbm dbmnz dnsdb dsearch ldap ldapdn ldapm mysql nis nis0 passwd pgsql
Authenticators: cram_md5 cyrus_sasl plaintext spa
Routers: accept dnslookup ipliteral iplookup manualroute queryprogram redirect
Transports: appendfile/maildir/mailstore/mbx autoreply lmtp pipe smtp
Fixed never_users: 0
Size of off_t: 8
Configuration file is /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (50, 'unstable'), (40, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-2-k7-smp
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages exim4-config depends on:
ii  adduser                       3.96       Add and remove users and groups
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.5.3      Debian configuration management sy

exim4-config recommends no packages.

-- debconf information excluded